Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Canada and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Crime to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Gerry Rafferty,
Whodini,
Fela Kuti,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Raincoats,
Eden Ahbez,
The Happenings,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Gap Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sixth Finger,
X-101,
Aaron Thompson,
The Associates,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Kinks,
Lightning Bolt,
Blancmange,
Brass Construction,
Harmonia,
The Stooges,
Sonic Youth,
Janne Schatter,
Wasted Youth,
Flash Fearless,
Lalo Schifrin,
Warren Ellis,
China Crisis,
Banda Bassotti,
Wire,
Intrusion,
Pantytec,
Danielle Patucci,
The Invisible,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Flesh Eaters,
Audionom,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Au Pairs,
KRS-One,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Seeds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Slick Rick,
the Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Sun Ra,
Das Ding,
Quantec,
Dark Day,
Nick Fraelich,
Lower 48,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lebanon Hanover,
EPMD,
Jeff Lynne,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.